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Re: [Gluster-devel] noatime mount option on the client?
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Anand Avati |
Subject: |
Re: [Gluster-devel] noatime mount option on the client? |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:40:38 +0530 |
>
> I'm wondering if it would help the performance for small files if I add
> the noatime option in the fstab for the gluster mount on the client
> machines (it's already there on the servers, of course).
>
> So basically, could a setting like
>
> /etc/glusterfs/glusterfs-client.vol /mnt/gluster1 glusterfs
> defaults,noatime 0 0
>
> be useful? Or is atime updates none of the clients business?
Currently the option would not help. atime is updated bo storage/posix
'naturally'. Other translators which do caching (like read-ahead) have
options to send dummy 1-byte read to update the atime when the requests hits
the cache.
avati